“I wish they [China] told us three months sooner that this [the coronavirus] was a problem. We didn’t know about it. They knew about it and they should have told us.”
Donald Trump
President. Press conference. Claim dated 21 Mar 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisExaggerates
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 21 March 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 March 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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